As some of you may have heard from my talking in the chat, I'm currently trying to make a plane/helicopter twin bladed VTOL (think V22 Osprey) as my third year project.
Our group is made up of 4 people and we each have our specialisations. I'm in the process of designing the electronics and interfacing with everything in the project. We're planning to be using a Atmel ATMega640 running at 16MHz with a complement of servos, speed controllers and more.
Why am I suddenly making the post tonight? Because we caused a speed controller to burst into flames! How you say? The development board we're using has a voltage regulator dedicated for servos and it's meant to output 5.6v.... it was putting out 9v. We had been working with a normal servo most of time to get the signalling from the micro controller correct and decided to test with a speed controller (After we could control the servo fine) and that's when it popped and burst into flames.
Pictures to come tomorrow. Time for me to sleep.
EDIT: Temp links
http://www.scienceprog.com/avr-isp/
http://www.g.laroche.free.fr/english...e/ProgAVR.html